League of Nations

American  

noun

1. an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946.

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League of Nations British  

noun

1. an international association of states founded in 1920 with the aim of preserving world peace: dissolved in 1946

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League of Nations Cultural  

1. An international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. The League, the forerunner of the United Nations, brought about much international cooperation on health, labor problems, refugee affairs, and the like. It was too weak, however, to prevent the great powers from going to war in 1939.

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Although President Woodrow Wilson of the United States was a principal founder of the League, the United States Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, and the United States never joined the League.

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Example Sentences

His vision of a new Europe included a League of Nations, in which “great and small states alike” would settle their differences peacefully instead of going to war.

From Literature

The Balfour Declaration formed the basis of the British Mandate for Palestine, which was formally approved by the League of Nations in 1922.

From BBC

The most famous and serious presidential disability crisis came when Woodrow Wilson collapsed during a cross-country train trip promoting his League of Nations in 1919.

From New York Times

The result, as conceived by him, was the League of Nations, a club of countries that promised, in theory, to provide collective security for one another, settling disputes by arbitration and defending victims of aggression.

From Seattle Times

The British and French consolidated their control with so-called "mandates" to govern handed to them by the newly founded League of Nations - a body which was dominated by the two imperial powers.

From BBC